Reading (20-3) led through three quarters, briefly fell behind in the final period, and made a couple of key plays in the final minutes to subdue the Bulldogs (14-11).

"I figured we had a shot," said first-year Reading High coach Richie Williams. "But we came a long way to do it."

They used up every second of the Berks season to make it happen, too. Not until sophomore point guard Tyeca Reviere was fouled and went to the line with 1.2 seconds left was the championship secure.

Reading scored its last basket with 1:46 left on a slick drive by freshman Isis Thorpe to break a tie, got a clutch one-and-one from sophomore Yaritza Ortiz 19 seconds later, and then held on as the Bulldogs cut it to one with 27.5 seconds to go.

Wilson's Jackie LeBlanc made it a one-point game when she made her first shot after she was fouled going for a layup off a steal. But the second bounced away. Workman rebounded and got the ball to the frontcourt, where the Knights called time with 12.1 seconds left.

Reviere was fouled with 6.8 seconds left and missed the front of a one-and-one. But Workman and Talitha Poore battled for possession as the ball went out of bounds, and the ball stayed with Reading.

After the inbounds play, the Bulldogs couldn't track down and foul Reviere until 1.2 seconds remained, by which time the shot really didn't matter.

"We felt good going into the fourth quarter," said Wilson coach Doug Myer. "We just didn't make enough plays at the end. Give Reading credit. They did."

Workman, the only returning starter from last year's team, made most of them, as usual. But the Knights got key plays from others, too, such as Thorpe's drive and the foul shots from Ortiz, and senior Brianna Savini came off the bench to score four points in the second quarter as Reading opened an eight-point lead.

Yet Reading could have led by much more, as Wilson shot just 4-for-25.

That changed in the second half, when LeBlanc scored six of her 10 points and the Bulldogs got hot. When Anna Kernan hit her second 3-pointer of the fourth quarter, the Bulldogs had the lead at 31-30.

Workman got it right back by following a Reviere miss and the Knights didn't trail again, but needed all but the last second to finish the Bulldogs, who had lost by 26 to Reading 11 days earlier.

"We really felt the last game was an aberration because that was our first double-digit loss of the year," said Myer. "Our kids were confident. It could have gone either way."